Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Niven and Pournelle's Footfall has an Orion-style spacecraft offering Earth's last ditch defence against alien invasion (by paragliding elephants in platform shoes).

Aerospace Imagineering has come up with a detailed design for this ship, the Michael.



...and Part Time Models is working on designs for a 1/72 scale Orion model...

This is the English blab on the back of a DVD I just received in the post. I have not changed the spelling, phrasing or grammar in any way...

A No-Prize to the person who correctly identifies the (relatively famous) film:

The Earth suffers ofter broken it seriously. Big part of places quict big locust pest with bigness poison the sea weed take by possession by force Spread at Dead Sea the edge's each city. The war is continuously in the there. The Vauey of the wind is protected by the sea breeze. People live the simpeicity and the happy. Castellan has a youngger daughter named Mulan. At very dangerous of time, the help that she is got the locust pest obstructed the war. Can people exterminate the crisis at last?

sorry tanais, but I think you're disqualified here, as I'm pretty sure you have the same version of the DVD in question!